The presidential election got your knickers in a knot? You could spend the next few nail-biting evenings cowering beneath the couch cushions, nervously perusing pollster.com while the major news networks blather about the countdown to Election Night. Or, you could drag your anxious ass out of the house to have a little fun, while still remaining gloriously informed.

OCTOBER 30
Raise your glass to the future president-elect at the fourth annual MARTINIS ON THE AVENUE PARTY: THE DOTINI ELECTION SPECIAL. Hosted by Fields Corner Main Street and St. Mark's Area Main Street, the 7 pm party combines pre-Halloween fun and pre-election buzz, with prizes awarded to the best politician look-alike. Tickets are $30, $35 at the door. Purchase tickets at fieldscorner.org, or call 617.474.1432.

Unreliable Narrator presents "SCHMOLITICS," a hilarious collection of satirical sketches, monologues, and 10-minute plays — including an abridged wrap-up of the past decade in American political history. The show runs through November 1; tickets are $9.

OCTOBER 31
Tonight's FILM FESTIVAL ON VOTING RIGHTS begins at 5:15 pm, with screenings of Iron Jawed Angels, American Blackout, and Hacking Democracy. Dress as your favorite civil-rights activist to help set the mood. Suggested donation of $20, to benefit the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots.

Election-themed costume parties are a given this Halloween, and REDLINE'S BIPARTISAN BOOGIEMAN BASH is no exception. From 8 pm to 2 am, compete for two $250 grand prizes by showcasing your most original politically themed costume.

NOVEMBER 1
Exercise your legs and your political savvy as author Clint Richmond takes you on a WALKING TOUR OF POLITICAL PLACES OF BOSTON. The $10 trek, based on Richmond’s book of the same name, will march you along the Beantown branch of the presidential-campaign trail, as it has passed through downtown Boston since 1860.

NOVEMBER 2
Sweeten up the election season with hand-iced PARTY PRIDE COOKIES FROM HARVARD SWEET BOUTIQUE. Choose from Democrat and Republican versions of this package of treats — elephant-shaped cookies for the starving McCain supporter, or two donkey-shaped ones for the Obamaniacs. Or hell, choose one of each, if you're one of those voters.

NOVEMBER 3
Nobody slices and dices politics like David Mamet. His election-themed work NOVEMBER is making its New England debut at the Lyric Stage Company, running through November 15. This satirical work stars a fictional commander-in-chief who is forced to tap into the turkey industry when he finds himself short on campaign funds.

NOVEMBER 4 ITS OWN SELF
Hip-hop and politics collide as LEEDZ EDUTAINMENT PRESENTS ELECTION NIGHT: BARACK THE VOTE at 8 pm. Tickets for the 18+ event are $12, $15 at the door. Featuring live performances from Edo. G, Slaine, Akrobatik, and Indifferent Arts, with music by DJ On & On.

INTERVIEW: ANDY RICHTER | November 25, 2009 We have a chub for Andy Barker, P.I. (just released out on DVD), because we have a major chub for the show’s star, Andy Richter. Richter plays an accountant who is mistaken for a detective-for-hire and decides to just roll with it.

REVIEW: SPREAD | August 19, 2009 If only there were some way to watch a con-artist houseboy give his cougar sugar mama a squirming reach-around, charm the pants off a candy-necklace string of countless empty-eyed Hollywood stick figures, lose his heart to an untouchable social chameleon, and, in the process, find himself .

NORTHERN EXPOSURE | July 29, 2009 While New York is grittier, Los Angeles juicier, and Boston is wicked smahter, for some odd reason it is Montreal that, for two weeks every summer, becomes the epicenter of the comedy universe.

JUST FOR LAUGHS | July 27, 2009 Blogs, Tweets, and comedy video direct from moose country

BEAT THE TWEET | July 22, 2009 Warm weather is supposed to be accessorized by lackaday, by a breezy sensibility best enjoyed with a frosty tall boy in one hand, the sloppy product of a back-yard barbecue in the other. Instead, I find myself struggling to balance my beer between my knees and my overstocked paper plate on my thigh as I furiously poke at my BlackBerry.